Postcards weren't easy to come by. The high cost put them out of reach of most people. So what could she do? She spent a fortune buying a postcard as a base, then took it to a photo studio to have it developed, keeping the cost to within 20 cents. She sold them for 70 to 90 cents each at the cinema, and two for 1 to 1.5 yuan at the university entrance.
Let's just say, Zhao Hongmei is truly brilliant. Most people would never imagine cutting costs this way, and still be able to get as much as they want. Later, when the market took off, she switched from retail to wholesale. Why did she switch to wholesale?
Because she found that developing photos by herself was cheaper! Going out to sell photos every day was a waste of time, so it was better to develop photos at home.
How low is that? The cost of developing a single film can be reduced to just a few cents—really low, right? Zhao Hongmei bought her own camera, film, and chemicals. Apart from eating, sleeping, and delivering goods, she spends the rest of her time developing film at home. She develops more films for the movies with the highest attendance, managing her schedule flexibly.
She produces 2,000 postcards at a time, and these are not only wholesaled to vendors in this city, but also to wholesalers from several nearby cities. The total amount of postcards she purchases from other cities is 50,000 to 10,000 each time.
Zhao Hongmei would sell goods in a dilapidated house every week. The minimum order was 100 pieces, and cash transactions were strictly prohibited, with no credit allowed. As time went by, more and more people followed her, and gradually the business grew to a small scale.
Well, anyway, I kept going back and forth like this, not even stopping on New Year's Eve. I was more industrious than the men. After a few years of tossing and turning, I gradually built up some capital and now I dare to go to Guangzhou to pick up the goods myself.
This trip wasn't easy; not only was it tiring, but if it got stolen, it would be like being transported back to the pre-liberation era. So, goods worth a few thousand yuan weren't worth the effort. Jiang Huashu, judging by the girl's efforts, conservatively estimated she had at least twenty thousand yuan. In the adult world, money is everything. Zhao Hongmei had changed dramatically from before.
In the 1980s, there were very few people with an annual income of over 10,000 yuan. It could be said that there were almost no people as young as Zhao Hongmei who could endure hardships.
There weren't many people that Brother Zuo admired, and Zhao Hongmei was one of them. She had a brilliant mind, and she had come up with one way to make money after another. So when Zhao Hongmei started talking about how the gate was broken and that was a difficult matter, Brother Zuo didn't dare to object.
Now that the truth was out, the troublemakers didn't dare to reveal their purpose, but Fifth Grandpa directly brought up the subject: "Who said I didn't want employees when I took over the factory?"
Brother Zuo was stunned when he heard Grandpa Wu's question, and immediately asked back, "Isn't it? The whole factory is saying that you only want the factory and not the employees."
After hearing this, Fifth Grandpa shook his head seriously and said, "I never said that."
Not only was Brother Zuo stunned, but everyone else who had come to cause trouble looked at Grandpa Wu in disbelief, wanting to see if he was lying. Grandpa Wu glanced at Sun Mofei without saying anything, and Sun Mofei immediately took over the topic: "Let's not talk about anything else, let's talk about the gate issue first. How are you going to solve this problem? If you don't arrange for work, you come and smash the gate. What are you going to do next?"
Everyone looked at each other and no one spoke. It was inappropriate to say anything now, and Fifth Grandpa did not give a direct answer as to whether he would really take over the work they arranged.
Only now do people truly understand why some people can become bosses while others can only be workers all their lives.
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